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secretary hagel remembers iraq. general dempsey, especially, remembers iraq, but secretary hagel and i and many of you on the dais remember iraq because we were here for that vote. we vote. and we're socially especially sensitive, chuck and i to never ask a member of congress to take vote on faulty intelligence, and that's why our intelligence community has scrubbed and rescrubbed the evidence. we have declassified unprecedented amounts of information, and we ask the american people and the rest of the world to judge that information. we can tell you beyond any reasonable doubt that our evidence proves the assad regime prepared for this atacoma issued instructions to prepare for this attack, warned its own forces to use gas masks, that we have physical evidence of where the rockets came from and when. not one rocket landed in regime-controlled territory. not one. all of them landed in opposition-controlled, or contested territory. we have a map, physical evidence, showing every geographical point of impact. and that
secretary hagel remembers iraq. general dempsey, especially, remembers iraq, but secretary hagel and i and many of you on the dais remember iraq because we were here for that vote. we vote. and we're socially especially sensitive, chuck and i to never ask a member of congress to take vote on faulty intelligence, and that's why our intelligence community has scrubbed and rescrubbed the evidence. we have declassified unprecedented amounts of information, and we ask the american people and the...
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we went hagel and brennan and went back to hagel. and i wanted to ask you about that comment. 14 years ago a quote about somebody being aggressively gay. how big a deal will that be? because one wonders if this is a president bush nomination and somebody went before this senate, how tough some of these senators would be on said candidate over such a candidate-- or such a comment? >> oh, not even kerfuffle on this one. once he said the person was not aggressively gay and-- >> what does it mean. i don't know. >> megyn: how do you get to aggressively gay? >> i don't know. maybe it's -- i don't know, maybe -- i don't want to speculate. >> megyn: don't go that. >> i don't want to go in that area. >> megyn: what was he trying to say. >> he apologized. he was trying to say this person would be very out gay person, a person who had embraced their homosexual identity, that this was -- that they were really out and gay. and so he was sorry for having said that and this is how it works in washington. especially if you're a democrat or a republi
we went hagel and brennan and went back to hagel. and i wanted to ask you about that comment. 14 years ago a quote about somebody being aggressively gay. how big a deal will that be? because one wonders if this is a president bush nomination and somebody went before this senate, how tough some of these senators would be on said candidate over such a candidate-- or such a comment? >> oh, not even kerfuffle on this one. once he said the person was not aggressively gay and-- >> what...
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do you think this is going to go-- >> he looks good. >> in the direction of chuck hagel or john kerry? >> it really depends how he does. for the record, i disagree that chuck hagel and john kerry are the a-team of american policy, quite the opposite. it's possible that they leaked it to draw the attention on this, if that's what they did, it worked. but and look, i think he wants to spend all of his team defending the drone campaign because that seems to be what the media is interested in and it's positive ground for him. he's got 83% backing of the american public including republicans and democrats, simon and me. so, i think he wants to focus on that. i think we really ought to be asking him questions about enhanced interrogation, about benghazi and also about all of these leaks and the obama administration hasn't been leaking, it's been a torrent of information that's coming out and we now know that several senior obama administration officials are under criminal investigation by the fbi and the justice department being questioned, including apparently john brennan has been questio
do you think this is going to go-- >> he looks good. >> in the direction of chuck hagel or john kerry? >> it really depends how he does. for the record, i disagree that chuck hagel and john kerry are the a-team of american policy, quite the opposite. it's possible that they leaked it to draw the attention on this, if that's what they did, it worked. but and look, i think he wants to spend all of his team defending the drone campaign because that seems to be what the media is...
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this is a rough week for secretary hagel. here he is capitulating on this medal and he was just in afghanistan three days ago with the president there saying that we were collaborating with the taliban and all he could say was it's not true. we need resolve and certainty in that position and we're not getting that right now. >> megyn: i'll give you the last word, lieutenant cowan, as somebody who has, both of you guys, put your lives on the line, with respect to the combat drones, the drone operators, that's not what they're doing. i'll give you the last word on the distinction. >> well, it's not what they're doing. they're not putting their lives on the line and not to say they're not working hard, not to say they don't deserve recognition. secretary hagel came in i'm sure he had a stack of papers of things to address a mile high, this is one of them that made its way through. he's a combat veteran and he may sit back now that he knows there's a lot of attention on this issue and sit back and think differently and get people
this is a rough week for secretary hagel. here he is capitulating on this medal and he was just in afghanistan three days ago with the president there saying that we were collaborating with the taliban and all he could say was it's not true. we need resolve and certainty in that position and we're not getting that right now. >> megyn: i'll give you the last word, lieutenant cowan, as somebody who has, both of you guys, put your lives on the line, with respect to the combat drones, the...
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ndefense secretary chuck hagel returns from a visit from asia friday night. un inspectors are expected to finish their work on friday and slated to finish their work saturday morning. james rosen received information from middle eastern sources about the likely targets which include the assad's rei don't mean and artillery and rocket stores. pentagon sources sdreeb a potential mission as a deter and degrade strike. that's what we are hearing for the officials here in the pentagon. >> thank you very much. first conservative and te party groups and a veteran organization is targeted bow the irs. the american ledgions who maintain records for all members including the dates and character of their service in the military. if they don't have the required proof, they can be hit with fines of a thousand dollars a day. we'll check in with concerned veterans for america to get a little bit more and your reaction. >> thank you for having me. >> talk about how veterans groups are classified by the irs and they have a special desination. >> they are considered than c3 or
ndefense secretary chuck hagel returns from a visit from asia friday night. un inspectors are expected to finish their work on friday and slated to finish their work saturday morning. james rosen received information from middle eastern sources about the likely targets which include the assad's rei don't mean and artillery and rocket stores. pentagon sources sdreeb a potential mission as a deter and degrade strike. that's what we are hearing for the officials here in the pentagon. >>...
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you hear about the phone calls going back and forth between chuck hagel and john kerry, who are they talking to? mohamed el baradei has stepped down and resigned. who are they talking to? >> we have a hot headed group. we faulked to general ceci, he's new and getting push to destroy the muslim brotherhood. the problem is the best way to marginlize someone is beat them at the ballot box, restore order. the military quickly should do that and have a new constitution voted on and new elections. there are elements of people in jail i think you could talk to. the worst possible thing is continue the violence. al qaeda will take advantage of this. oil prices will go up and egypt will become a failed state. you can't kill your way out of this box. that's what i've told the brotherhood. that's what i told the egyptian military. violence will not lead to the solution that they want. the egyptian economy is going to crumble. if the egyptian economy crumbles the whole region goes into economic chaos. >> that is a very frightening picture, senator. just to hear you talk about egypt as a potentia
you hear about the phone calls going back and forth between chuck hagel and john kerry, who are they talking to? mohamed el baradei has stepped down and resigned. who are they talking to? >> we have a hot headed group. we faulked to general ceci, he's new and getting push to destroy the muslim brotherhood. the problem is the best way to marginlize someone is beat them at the ballot box, restore order. the military quickly should do that and have a new constitution voted on and new...
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language from north korea especially when it comes to the west or the united states, but it's chuck hagel's reaction that's gotten a lot of folks looking at this a little more seriously today. >> well, also don't forget, this is the first time that you've heard this extended provocation and rhetoric from the young kim jong-un. we've kind of heard this rhetoric before, but this is the longest period that we've seen this escalating tension with no end in sight. he we do into that china and russian are concerned and asking the u.s. and others to lower the rhetoric, lower the tension on the korean peninsula. we've received photos of kim jong-un making war plans, we're told, with his national security team shortly after midnight local time. kim jng you know signed orders that places north korean rocket forces on stand by. and the pentagon says they haven't seen any movement on that front yet. the animated state defgs announcer who said this quote, he finally signed the plan on technical preparations of strategic rockets of the korean people's army, ordering them to be on stand by to fire so that
language from north korea especially when it comes to the west or the united states, but it's chuck hagel's reaction that's gotten a lot of folks looking at this a little more seriously today. >> well, also don't forget, this is the first time that you've heard this extended provocation and rhetoric from the young kim jong-un. we've kind of heard this rhetoric before, but this is the longest period that we've seen this escalating tension with no end in sight. he we do into that china and...
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moments ago, defense secretary chuck hagel started speaking in washington. we're monitoring those remarks for any comments about the latest threats from north korea. overseas today, the top u.s. commander in south korea is offering a bleak assessment of the current situation. general james thurmon telling reporters he's never seen things as tense as they are right now on the korean peninsula. describing it as volatile and dangerous, fearing any m miscalculation could lead to war. the north barring south korean workers from entering a jointly operated factory complex, jeopardizing a project that provides some of the other peaceful contact between the two sides. and as the tensions escalate, the pentagon is taking action, positioning two war ships now near the korean peninsula as part of a missile defense mission. greg palkot has the latest live from london, greg. >> reporter: yeah, the latest target of north korea, seemingly innocuous. we were there a few years ago, not much too see outside a important situation, maybe the only cooperation right now. that fac
moments ago, defense secretary chuck hagel started speaking in washington. we're monitoring those remarks for any comments about the latest threats from north korea. overseas today, the top u.s. commander in south korea is offering a bleak assessment of the current situation. general james thurmon telling reporters he's never seen things as tense as they are right now on the korean peninsula. describing it as volatile and dangerous, fearing any m miscalculation could lead to war. the north...
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. >> in less than two hours, chuck hagel will hold a news conference on missile defense learned that the pentagon is set to deploy 14 additional ground-based missile silos in alaska and california and bring the total number of interceptors to 44. just eight days ago, the white house tried to reassure the american people. >> i can tell you that the united states is fully capable of defending against any north korean ballistic missile attack. >> reporter: north korea has been unpredictable, a country so isolated and threatened a preemptive strike on the u.s. and signaling a change is coming. >> north korea has the united states to continue icbm. >> intercontinental ballistic missile. saying the threat should have been recognized. >> and clear it was a-- they misdiagnosed, i think, the nature of what was happening in the region in terms of what a heavily sanctioned country determined to acquire these capabilities would be able to do, but i think it's also driven by a broader ideology that was opposed to missile defense. >> copingressional sources say it would cost more than four years a
. >> in less than two hours, chuck hagel will hold a news conference on missile defense learned that the pentagon is set to deploy 14 additional ground-based missile silos in alaska and california and bring the total number of interceptors to 44. just eight days ago, the white house tried to reassure the american people. >> i can tell you that the united states is fully capable of defending against any north korean ballistic missile attack. >> reporter: north korea has been...